The community initiatives that helped make composting a reality in New York are facing possible budget cuts, and advocates say their loss will be devastating.
Five years ago, David Buckel violently ended his life in a public park in Brooklyn. People who knew him were shocked and angry. Yet they refused to give up.
The City Council is set to pass a bill on Thursday requiring New Yorkers to separate their food waste from regular trash, with mandatory composting coming to all five boroughs by next year.
So far, nothing from the city’s curbside composting program has been composted. But gas produced by the scraps is now consistently flowing into pipelines to serve homes.